In the faithless, disloyal China of this generation, open to anti-foreign, propaganda and readily purchasoabl, with Russian money, these paragraphs do not constitute a text upon which anyone is entitled to base a prophecy, but they may help to explain the "inexplicable @uvelops. 'The one thing to reo member is that public opinion in the North will back any competent authority upon which public opinion may possibly be centred, however corrupt and tyrannical, rather than the most benevolent' system of popular rule which the Sonti'e Russian advisers can dovige. Noruiern rule in a Man-teo community may collapse because of its own rottanness, bred of contact with the Man-tze; but Man-tze rule jin North China must always be an abnormality, the sight of Northerners, which Nature should shortly right. The further the Cantones: "progress therefore, the stronger must' be the Northern feeling of solidarity in the face of a racial war. In such a crisis the sing of such as Chany Chung-ch'ang. and Ch'a Vu-p'u are readily forgiven and forgotten and who knows the Northern mind is not caited upon to marvel at the popularity of the ino Kingdom idea, even in the face its soldiers' outrages, A Fortner order has been fesued Gen. Yen Chuo-yang regarding the spreading of war rumours Chinese territory. The new order warns people of all nationalities which come under Chinese jurisdietion' that the penalties for that particular offence will be rigorously enforced,
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